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Can filling and seaming machine from China

The seam is the product: a can that fills well and seams badly leaks or lets oxygen in weeks later, and most offers describe the filler in detail and the seamer in one line.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Seaming heads

The number of seaming heads, each with first and second operation rollers, sets the speed. Ask how many, and whether spare rollers are included.

Can and lid size

Chucks and rollers fit one lid diameter. Ask which cans the tooling covers and the price of each extra set.

Oxygen control

Ask whether cans are purged with CO2 before filling and gassed under the lid, and whether oxygen pickup was measured.

Filling principle

Counter-pressure for carbonated drinks, level filling for still ones.

Seam inspection tools

A seam saw and micrometer, or a seam projector. Many offers include neither.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Can and lid size, with your lid supplier's seam specification.
Product: still, carbonated, nitrogen-dosed, hot or cold.
Cans per hour and number of can sizes.
Empty cans from pallets or fed by hand.
What follows: rinser, coder, tunnel pasteuriser, packer.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Seam your lids on your cans, then cut and measure cans from every head.	Thickness, width, countersink, body hook, cover hook and overlap inside the lid supplier's figures on every head.
Fill your product at rated speed, a counted series.	Fill volume within tolerance and no can leaking under water.
Where oxygen matters, measure dissolved oxygen before and after.	Pickup inside the figure in the contract.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity with serial number.
Food contact declarations for product-side parts.
Tooling drawings and seam settings per can size.

The one people forget. A seam record for each head from the factory test, so your technician sees when rollers drift.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You can a few hundred cans a day in several sizes.

A semi-automatic single-head seamer, or a mobile canning service.

Your product goes into glass or PET.

A beverage bottling line; can tooling does not convert.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 8Eight can filling machine listings, checked September 2026, advertised US$3,800 to US$150,000; most stated no speed. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 3Three stating speed, checked September 2026: one at 300 to 600 cans an hour, two at 3,000 an hour for 330 ml cans, one of those at US$14,600 to US$18,800.
Arithmetic3,000 cans an hour / 60 = 50 cans a minute.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Carbonated drink filling machine. Choose it if your carbonated drink goes into bottles instead of cans.
Beverage bottling line. Choose it if you need a full line for bottles.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Food & candy page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European can filling and seaming machine?+

Seamer tooling decides the result. Ask who makes the rollers and chucks, and price a spare set.

Inspection checklist?+

Seam teardown per head, lid feed jams, CO2 use, guarding at the seamer, a stop when a lid is missing.

CE documentation and EU compliance?+

A Declaration of Conformity under 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027. Contact parts fall under Regulation (EC) 1935/2004. A pressurised bowl may fall under 2014/68/EU.

Import to the EU: who carries the duties?+

The importer, the EU business placing it on the market, which names itself and checks the documents.

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